TY - GEN
T1 - Biometrics applications in e-health security
T2 - 4th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2015
AU - Okoh, Ebenezer
AU - Awad, Ali Ismail
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Driven by the desires of healthcare authorities to offer better healthcare services at a low cost, electronic Health (e-Health) has revolutionized the healthcare industry. However, while e-Health comes with numerous advantages that improve health services, it still suffers from security and privacy issues in handling health information. E-Health security issues are mainly centered around user authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality, and patient privacy protection. Biometrics technology addresses the above security problems by providing reliable and secure user authentication compared to the traditional approaches. This study explores the security and privacy issues in e-Health, and offers a comprehensive overview of biometrics technology applications in addressing the e-Health security challenges. The paper concludes that biometrics technology has considerable opportunities for application in e- Health due to its ability to provide reliable security solutions. Although, additional issues like system complexity, processing time, and patient privacy related to the use of biometrics should be taken into consideration.
AB - Driven by the desires of healthcare authorities to offer better healthcare services at a low cost, electronic Health (e-Health) has revolutionized the healthcare industry. However, while e-Health comes with numerous advantages that improve health services, it still suffers from security and privacy issues in handling health information. E-Health security issues are mainly centered around user authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality, and patient privacy protection. Biometrics technology addresses the above security problems by providing reliable and secure user authentication compared to the traditional approaches. This study explores the security and privacy issues in e-Health, and offers a comprehensive overview of biometrics technology applications in addressing the e-Health security challenges. The paper concludes that biometrics technology has considerable opportunities for application in e- Health due to its ability to provide reliable security solutions. Although, additional issues like system complexity, processing time, and patient privacy related to the use of biometrics should be taken into consideration.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-19156-0_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-19156-0_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84944128230
SN - 3540625984
SN - 9783319191553
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 92
EP - 103
BT - Health Information Science - 4th International Conference, HIS 2015, Proceedings
A2 - Ho, Kendall
A2 - Yin, Xiaoxia
A2 - Zhou, Rui
A2 - Wang, Hua
A2 - Aickelin, Uwe
A2 - Zeng, Daniel
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 28 May 2015 through 30 May 2015
ER -